Audit: U. of North Texas Manipulated Payroll

A state audit has found that the University of North Texas consistently received more state funds than it should have by manipulating its payroll expenditures, The Dallas Morning News reported. The audit to be released today, which the newspaper obtained, recommends that the Legislature require the university to repay at least $75.6 million over a decade to reimburse the state for the excess funds it received by manipulating payroll expenditures in a state accounting system and paying some employees with state funds who should not have been paid that way.